First Confession By O`ConnorFrank OConnor wrote and published two versions of the story, FirstConfession. The first version was written in limited omniscient point of viewand the second one was written in a first person point of view. I found afterreading both versions that the limited omniscient style was entertaining,effective and more to my liking. The …
Blank Confessions by Pete Hautman was based off of a mysterious boy named Shayne that moves to a town and enrolls at the local high school and makes friends with Mikey, a small, fragile boy who is picked on by Jon Brande, his sister’s boyfriend. Blank Confession has interesting characters that form a great storyline. …
An Explication of Frank O’Connor’s “First Confession” Religious dogma and its customs are so fixed in stone that the practice of such is not open to question. A pious person simply follows the established traditions of his church on account of pure faith and belief. The same blind adherence is true with a young and …
ABSTRACT—Despite the commonsense belief that people do not confess to crimes they did not commit, 20 to 25% of all DNA exonerations involve innocent prisoners who confessed. After distinguishing between voluntary, compliant, and internalized false confessions, this article suggests that a sequence of three processes is responsible for false confessions and their adverse consequences. First, …
